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Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 59% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 59% and getting smaller. The 21 days old Moon is in ♉ Taurus.
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Moon phase and lunation details
7 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 7 days on 18 August 2054 at 09:22.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the evening and sets in the morning. It is visible to the southwest and it is high in the sky after midnight.
Moon in ♉ Taurus
Moon is passing about ∠22° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1862"
Lunar disc appears visually 2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1862" and ∠1899".
Sturgeon Moon before 7 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2054 after 22 days on 17 September 2054 at 01:41.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 26 August 2054 at 08:56
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 2 September 2054 at 01:18
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 8 September 2054 at 21:46
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 17 September 2054 at 01:41
Neap tide
There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.
Lunation 675 / 1628
The Moon is 21 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 675 of Meeus index or 1628 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.31 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 30 minutes. It is 1 hour and 1 minute shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 14 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 55 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠352.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠352.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠7.4°.
Moon after apogee
7 days after point of apogee on 18 August 2054 at 10:18 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 1 September 2054 at 14:49 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 385 048 km
The Moon is 385 048 km (239 258 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 7 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 587 km (222 194 mi).
Moon before ascending node
6 days after descending node on 18 August 2054 at 14:57 in ♒ Aquarius. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 1 September 2054 at 07:18 in ♌ Leo.
Draconic month
20 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♌ Leo, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
11 days since the previous standstill on 14 August 2054 at 09:17 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.120°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.122° at the point of next northern standstill on 28 August 2054 at 21:36 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 7 days
In 7 days on 2 September 2054 at 01:18 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is going to be in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
